Don't want no stinkin DL grads!

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by SurfDoctor, Jun 8, 2010.

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  1. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Equal opportunity does not refer to your qualifications or experience. If you have a degree from SUNY and an employer prefers degrees from UMass, that is the employer's prerogative. If you worked with Apple and the company prefers experience from IBM, that is the employers prerogative.

    Protected classes include race, age, gender and disability (with "reasonable accommodation" according to the ADA), not where or how you obtained your degree. I don't expect that to ever change, and I don't think it should.
     
  2. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    If a person attended classes online because they have a disability, I wonder if they might have a case....
     
  3. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    Interesting idea.
     
  4. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    WOW! You just blew my mind, that's a great point!

    One could wonder however, if disability prevents such a person from attending class, would it not also prevent them from having a regular job?
     
  5. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    Are yall trying to find work for lawyers?
     
  6. Lukeness

    Lukeness Member

    that could certainly keep the lawyers busy!
     
  7. CargoJon

    CargoJon New Member

    GREAT FIND!!!! +1

    What really kills me about this job posting is:

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    Four year degree from a respected "brick and mortar" school. Please no online degrees.
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    Prior experience in a corporate environment is ideal, but not required.


    so they, by their own admission, would rather have someone with an on-campus degree from UMass-Lowell, let's say, with no experience, than an experienced candidate with a degree from the same school who attended their classes online?

    Here's another chin-scratcher for you. What if you have an online bachelor's from, say, one of the big three, but you have an MBA from Penn State earned on-campus? Does the MBA supersede the "online" degree?

    There are so many roads to go down with this it's amusing. I, for one, am not amused by this ad though.
     
  8. AUTiger00

    AUTiger00 New Member

    I think the posting was pretty vague. If my degree was done online at a B&M school, I would still apply. I think what they are probably trying to avoid are the for-profits (U0fP, etc.). Just my guess.

    Also, someone earlier mentioned that $45-$50 didn't seem like a lot of money, but the job description described the position as entry-level, I'd say that's pretty good money for your first job, even coming out of a "respected school" (which is very vague, who determines what qualifies as a "respected school". I wonder if they would hire someone from George Mason - which I consider a respected school - or if they are looking for someone from Georgetown, UVA, W&L, GWU, etc.)
     
  9. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    I agree, 45 - 50K is quite good for an entry level position. The other thing to remember that this IS an entry level position. I would guess that a DL degree would not be a detriment to someone in the same company who has tenure.

    I suspect that DL degrees have the least utility for first time job seekers. I don't think they will hurt you in general, but if you are competing with someone else who has a B&M, that other person might have an edge over you.
     
  10. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member



    It's not a lot if the schools they want grads from are Harvard or Yale.
     
  11. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    True, I don't think it says that though. Although I'm sure someone from those schools would get the job almost every time.
     
  12. Marylandgal

    Marylandgal New Member

    Honestly, as someone who is about to enter the work world, $45-$50K a year would make me ecstatic! Some of my friends from high school went the ivy league route and one who went to Yale is currently bar tending because he cannot find a job. I think any entry level applicant would be fine with that salary, no matter where they went to school.
     
  13. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    Sure.......
     
  14. Marylandgal

    Marylandgal New Member

    Maybe my friends are not representative of the year out of college populations, but 22 and 23 year-olds have few needs beyond housing and booze, and for some of my friends, they have no student loan payments. Maybe I am naive, but $45-50K seems like a lot of money.
     
  15. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    To me now that seems like a lot. I started just below that in a government job five years ago; of course I just got laid off. But the job had no college requirements. My wife makes more than that at a nursing home with a LVN. The license I am working towards, Nursing Administrator starts out at around $50-65,000 with no experience and just your bachelors in any subject. It’s hard to believe a grad from Yale could only find a job at a Bar. My wife’s company wants me to start as an intern for nursing administration while I work on a degree that’s years off, that’s how lacking they are for people to fill these spots. They are willing to start training me now hoping I will pay off in the future. (at very low pay)
     
  16. Marylandgal

    Marylandgal New Member

    Maybe it is because was looking to be a paralegal. In today's economy, lawyers are being laid off and having to settle for paralegal work while looking for full time jobs. Maybe it is the market he is looking in.
     
  17. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    He went to Yale to be a paralegal or a Lawyer? But yes your right, there is no work out there in that line.
     
  18. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    It's more than twice what I earned last year (working part-time of course) and yet, I still found a way to bank a couple of thousand dollars, while living in one of the most expensive states. Maybe I am naïve too, but I simply don't spend more than I can drink... um, I mean afford :D.
     
  19. Interesting. I just received my Indiana diploma and it is totally indistinguishable from either the full-time or part-time version.
     
  20. SurfDoctor

    SurfDoctor Moderator

    Congratulations! It's great that there is no designation for how your degree was earned. There is no reason to put that on there, it's just as good as any other. Most degrees, with only a few exceptions, do not specify how it was earned.
     

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